Jennifer Baichwal
An image from Manufactured Landscapes, one of the productions that also features Jennifer Baichwal.
Jennifer Baichwal

Jennifer Baichwal

January 1, 1965 — Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jennifer Baichwal, director and producer, was born in Montréal and came to documentary filmmaking through studies in philosophy and theology at her hometown’s McGill University. She debuted 15 years ago with Looking You in the Back of the Head. Her first feature-length film, Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998), was screened at a number of festivals and took Best Biography at the 1999 Hot Docs festival. In 1998 she and partner Nick de Pencier founded Mercury Films, and there she has produced, among other films, her own works The Holier It Gets and The True Meaning of Pictures, as well as the multiply-awarded festival favorite Manufactured Landscapes (about the work of artist Edward Burtynsky), one of the most noteworthy Canadian documentaries of the decade.

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

2018

Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes

2006

Watermark

Watermark

2013

The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running

The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running

2017

The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia

2002

Payback

Payback

2012

Swan Song

Swan Song

2023

Kandahar Journals

Kandahar Journals

2015